I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.

Obviously one would hope one would have as much support as possible from all walks of life, i am a great fan of Elizabeth and as for what people do and why they don't do it, I am not going to speculate.

...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people.

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.

A number of years ago, people were saying normal relationship with Cuba, what a bad and silly idea. They're Communists, they are our enemy. Well guess what? Change has come.